once again, fished again!

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I went again today at the Ohio River. I caught two hybrid about 5lbs and a small 13" stripe. The catch of the day though was a 4ft spotted gar about as thick as my leg!! I thought I had a monster stripe on but when I finally got the fish in I was surprised to see it was actually a gar! FOr those of you that dont know gar are relativly hard to catch. Their scales are like armor and their mouths like stone so itsnext to impossible to get a hook in. Not to mention the hundreds of teeth they have that can break your line! Well I had a one in a million hook set in the only soft part in a gar...under the chin. I estimated his weight at 30lbs. It was a 20min on 10lb tackle! Saldy no camera.... :(
 
I brought a camera today! Two 8-10lb hybrid! I swear they look smaller in the pics! (its cause they are bent)

Notice how much chunkier they are as compared to the stripe bass you all were catching? How do the SW stripe taste? Hybrid are one of my favorite fish to eat. Ive got em filleted and seasoned ready for grillin for lunch tomorrow!

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Nice fish! Hybrid do not get as big as stripe but they are thicker relative to their length then stripe. We also have nice stripe here. 58#s being the sate record!! I had one on a few weeks ago that easily would have gone 20#s but some dude threw over my line as I was fighting him and pulled the hook!!
 
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